Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bestseller list (No. 1 for 21 weeks). The book has become the focus for a baby conglomerate that mints money by marketing Fonda's exercise ideology. A 90-min. video cassette showing Fonda and the workout instructors performing the regimen retails for $59.95; a two-record album of mellow-rock exercises has made the Top 40; her Workout studios are now in Beverly Hills, Encino and San Francisco and will be opening up in other large cities. At the Beverly Hills center, housewives and secretaries mingle with Hollywood actresses, such as Kate Jackson, Ali MacGraw and Jill Clayburgh, spending...
...Americans by the millions, summer is that mellow and hazy season of beaches, baseball and, of course, beer. Yet for the folks who brew the U.S.'s favorite grownup beverage, the summer of 1982 has been anything but serene. American beermakers are engaged in the most ferocious free-for-all in their 357-year history. After years of steady expansion, two giant companies, Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis and Miller Brewing Co. of Milwaukee, are locked in a struggle for dominance of the entire market, while smaller regional and local brewers are getting trampled underfoot. In the past five...
...Irish Mafia, named by Sander Vanocur, then NBC White House Correspondent, still controlled the heartbeat of J.F.K.'s three-year-old Administration. In Scammon's mellow hindsight, there is no doubt that the tough, pragmatic, but often tender and poetic, strains of the Kennedy stewardship reflected the political culture of the Boston Irish and the legacy of J.F.K.'s grandfather, Honey Fitz...
DIED. Harry Mills, 68, one of the original Mills Brothers, singer of most of the scat parts and baritone solos for the barbershop-swing group, whose mellow and enduringly contemporary sound (Paper Doll, Lazy River, Glow Worm) withstood shifts in musical fashions and gave Mills a singing career that spanned 57 years; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...Springs, Calif, (to simulate the dry, hot climate of Las Vegas), under a gleaming white tent pitched behind the Canyon Hotel. At suppertime the parking lot was still steaming. The challenger appeared for his ring work every evening at 5 o'clock, to a tape of George Benson's mellow ballad The Greatest Love of All. Said Cooney dreamily: "Listen to the words." As his dainty hands were being double-bandaged by Trainer Victor Valle, the fighter sang along: ". . . Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be . . ." Sonny Liston skipping, sparring and sneering to Night Train...